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Spring has brought an explosion of colour along the Scottish coast

Here’s Arushi Jain playing her music. You can read more about Arushi by clicking here. Peaceful music.

The great song that goes with this video by The IronWeed Project

Another one for the grandchildren…

Note: the iPhone digital zoom not so hot!

Please click here to listen to our interview with Sir Richard Dearlove.

Okay. I lied about the last blog post of the year (previous post).

But, if Boris ‘pilllock‘ Johnson can lie to the world repeatedly, then so can I!!!

If you look at John’s blog post (please click here), you’ll see he’s getting QRM on 540 Khz. QRM is radio-speak for interference or, maybe, jamming.

John is in Las Vegas and I’m in Scotland and so, I tuned to 540 Khz on my radio to see what I would receive here on the fashionable side of the North Atlantic. And what I get on 540 Khz is a station broadcasting in a language I do not recognise. Please take a listen to the video below. If anyone knows the cause of John’s interference (I wonder about his ceiling fan!), or the language recorded in my video below, please do let us know.

Happy New Year again. This might really be my past blog post of 2020. Let’s hope for a wonderful 2021.

STOP PRESS. I just found this.

My grandson completes his first solo.

Please listen in to our most recent Banff Spy podcast featuring Iona Reid who is a young, up and coming actress based in Turriff in North East Scotland.

You can listen to Iona talking about acting and acting training by clicking on this link.

Please check out our Banff Spy website by clicking here.

And he’s a photograph of Iona who is also the Banff Spy Podcast Producer:

The Morse Code had everything to do with the sinking of the Titanic and it was also used by Secret Agents everywhere..

Please take a listen to our latest Banff Spy podcast about the Morse Code by following this link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1166630/6234538

All done using Photoshop’s new neural filter…

You might think that Morse code had died out long ago. Here’s a recording of what is known as a ‘pile up.’ About 11 seconds into the recording, you’ll hear Radio Amateur enthusiasts around the world trying to make contact with one person who has a rare callsign. Radio Amateurs record the contacts (AKA QSOs) with other Radio Amateurs around the world and collect contacts like other people collect rare stamps. The Morse code is alive and well!

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Part 2 of the first of our podcasts.

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I bet you weren’t expecting this!! Now you get to listen to me and my wonderful colleagues!

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